Posted on do 25 januari 2018 in desktop • Tagged with apple, hardware
My Mac Pro from before 2010 was happily running MacOS Mavericks I think. There were some minor annoyances, but mostly it was working pretty swell. And a couple of years ago the machine dropped from the supported hardware list of newer MacOS releases like Sierra and High Sierra. So no …
The install took 50 minutes and two reboots two days ago. All seems fine.
Also, did a clean install on another laptop and apparently enabling disk encryption during initial setup has been the default for some time. It was a new one for me. But then I rarely do clean …
Posted on vr 29 september 2017 in desktop • Tagged with apple, security
Some time ago I bought a couple of Yubikeys, but actually start using them ended up on the todo list.
But now I can easily unlock and lock my apple laptop with my yubi key. Unlocking is just done using the standard pam module and the configuration described at the …
Posted on do 17 augustus 2017 in desktop • Tagged with apple, ubuntu
Once every blue moon I try some sort of Linux as the native operating system on my laptop. As I tend to have a recent laptop, this usually ends as a short experiment where I find out one or two devices just will not work.
As my wife moved to …
Posted on ma 26 december 2016 in desktop • Tagged with apple
The experience with my MacBook Pro late 2016 have been mostly positive. There is an annoying thing going on with third party apps, including Firefox and KeepassX, crashing. The crashes always report themselves when I unlock my laptop. So I suspect it occurs during sleep or wake of the laptop …